Elections in Greenland have never worked internationally. Today’s elections, however, are of interest to the world’s largest island claim by President Trump
Almost no one would be interested in today’s elections at Greenland If the American president Donald Trump He had not recently stated that the US was claiming it. Today about 40,000 voters on the world’s largest island are coming to the polls to elect 31 Members.
The interest of international public opinion is unprecedented: on the one hand because the advocates of Greenland’s full independence from Denmark are in a strong command. On the other hand, because President Trump would very much like Greenland to be under US control.
Trump: I think we’ll get Greenland
In his speech Trump at Congress In early March, he stressed to the Greenlanders: “We strongly support your right to determine your future. And if you want it, you are welcomed in the United States of America. We need Greenland for national security, even for international security. (…) And I think we’ll get it. In one way or another, we will succeed. “
The US has already fed the Pituffik base in the northwest of Greenland since the 1950s. At the same time in the interests of security, Americans are also interested in the mineral wealth of the huge island, such as oil, natural gas, gold and uranium.
Shortly before the election, the Danish PET secret service warned of a Russian misinformation campaign for Greenlanders, referring to a multitude of fake social media accounts and fake news.
“We are neither Danes nor Americans”
Johann Farkas, Assistant Professor of Mass Media at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in misinformation, tells DW: “Greenland is a very small community of 57,000 inhabitants with close ties. Efforts to influence public opinion with false accounts we have seen in the past. But I think it is not easy to access the small Greenland society and because there is a language barrier. “
For the prime minister of the semi -autonomous island of Mutte Egote, who is seeking a second term in the elections, independence from Denmark remains a proclaimed goal: “We do not want to be Americans or Danes, we are Kalalit (as the Greens calls themselves). The Americans and President Donald Trampha should understand this, “Greenland’s Facebook prime minister wrote after Trump’s speech in Congress.
Curated by: Stefanos Georgakopoulos
Source :Skai
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